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たった今入った映像。多重衝突スリップ事故

 

つい昨日アメリカで放映された映像です。　

異常気象が続く昨今、これはアメリカだけの問題ではなく、日本でも起こりえます。

北海道以外のみなさん、特に坂道の多い地域のみなさん。気を付けてくださいね。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRkZSP_jq5M

 

The more freezing rain is falling right now that’s on top of the half inch of ice that pretty much coats everything around

And across this part of the country, it is proving to be a big danger for drivers.

 

This SUV is spinning in circles. Barreling out of control, downhill, with just one way to stop. Seconds later, it started all over again.Parked cars were like pinball bumpers to this driver. The brakes, no use. The wild rides continued.

A convoy of collisions on this Pittsburgh street, even as crash　victims like these children, were escaping the mounting wreckage.  In Pittsburgh alone, forty-five crashes choked up to ice.  At least seventy people treated in the E.R.(emergency room) for slips and falls.  

The storm packed with sleet and freezing rain moved further, northeast to near Boston, where instead of driving, cars were skating. 

 

The hills. It’s tough on the hills. In New Haven Conneticut, a backwards approach to drive home.  

Parking lots and streets looked like ice links.

 

We just started sliding and stopped, because I didn’t want to hit the car over here. Dropping rain and dropping temperature is not the only problem for this storm. Another ten ionches of snow could fall in parts of northern new England. And other places are suffering too. In Genessee county, Michigan, a dramatic rescue.

 

Look closely under this semi…  There is a car down there. A driver was pinned inside. He had spun out.

The truck driver tried to avoid him, but instead they both wound up in the ditch. Hard to believe judging from this damage, but somehow the driver escaped unhurt.

 

Back here in Conneticut, some seven hundred emergency calls came pouring in to state police yesterday during the morning rush.

 

Robin ther are hoping for a quieter one today.

Look at the background. All the snow still on the streets and piled up high there in Cheshire.

 

 

 

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AP 通信が発信した佑ちゃんフィーバー

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地元鎌ヶ谷市での熱狂ぶりを”rock star welcome” （ロックスターの様な歓迎ぶり）と表現したAP.　

記録を出してナンボの世界で、ルーキーがこれほどもてはやされるのが不思議でしょうが無かったのですねきっと.

Rookie Saito creating fan, media frenzy

 

Nippon Ham Fighters rookie pitcher Yuki Saito has  received “a rock star welcome” from fans at the team’s training facilities in Chiba Prefecture.

About 2,500 fans were out to see his first training with fellow rookies on Wednesday, after the 22-year-old former Waseda University standout’s move into the team’s dormitory made the front page of almost all sports newspapers in Japan.

Saito began with a light workout, only running, playing catch and doing some fielding practice, and the fans kept watching his every move on a chilly day.

“It feels good to go out there and work out,” Saito said. “The first day of training has motivated me even more to jump-start my pro career. I want all these people to see me pitch on the top team mound as early as possible.”

Saito became a national hero when he led Waseda Jitsugyo to the national high school championship title in August 2006.

He opted to play college baseball rather than turn pro.

His rival Masahiro Tanaka, who lost to Saito in the high school championship final, joined the Rakuten Eagles as their top 2006 draft pick and won the Rookie of the Year award in 2007 on his way to becoming an established star pitcher in Japan.

In college, Saito became the only sixth pitcher to reach 30 wins and 300 strikeouts in the Tokyo Big Six League.

“Just seeing him run, I can tell he has strong athletic ability,” said Nippon Ham manager Masataka Nashida, who came to the training.

“Now is only the preparatory stage. I don’t want him to rush anything. I just expect him to take time to build physical strength.”

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英作文チャレンジコーナー（はいはい道新） Hokkaido Newspaper “Readers’ voice column”

 
 
 
地産地消をうたった懸賞に私と夫の名前で２通応募しました。あまり期待せずにいたところ、主催者から当選の知らせがあり、希望した魚の一夜干しセットが届きました。大好物のツボダイのほかホッケ、カレイ、など５種類の干物が１０点ほど入っていて夫婦で大喜びです。六日間続けて夕飯でいただきましたが、日頃スーパーで購入している干物とは違い、どれも特上品で大満足でした。久々にうれしい思いを味わいましたよ。（北海道新聞　２０１１年１月１７日号）
 
My husband and I signed for a prize contest whose slogan was “Produce locally, consume locally”. We sent in two applications with our names respectively.
Though not expecting to win, we got a notice from the authority that we won the prize, a set of “Ichiyaboshi ” or overnight dried fish we had wished for.
There were about ten fish of five species, such as my favorite Tsubodai (Japanese armorhead), Hokke (Atka mackerel), Karei (Flatfish).
We were both pleased with the prize.  We ate them for dinner for six consecutive days.  All of them were of high quality and not the kind that you can get at a regular superstore. We never had tasted happy moments like this for a long time.
 
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テレビ見たぞ、彩芽くん I’ve seen you on the TV, AYAME.

点滴の針を刺す時、こわがらずに堂々としていたね。

When the drip  needle was about to be inserted, you showed no sign of being scared.

運動会の徒競走、懸命に走っていたね。

In the elementary school foot race, you were running as hard as you could. 

札幌までのひとり旅、いい経験をしたね。

Traveling to as far as Sapporo, you’ve earned a lifetime experience.

筋肉がすこし出来てきた、と先生にほめられてうれしそうな顔したね。

When your doctor told you that your arm muscles had increased a bit, you looked happy.

 

君のその頑張りで、多くの人が感動し、勇気づけられた。　おじさんもそのひとりだ。

Your fight against your disease inspired many people including me.

ありがとう。　

Thank you.

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海外でも報道、タイガーマスクのイイ話。Tiger Mask repaying welfare facilities, spurs outburst of charity

虎だッ、虎だっ、お前は虎になるのだ。　タｱーッツ！　我が世代のヒーロー、タイガーマスク（伊達直人）の名を借りて善行をおこなう男の姿が海外でも報じられています。

暗い世相が渦巻く中、心が温まりますよね。　

ディクテーションのやりがいがありました。　この運動が世界中に広がることを願いたいです。

動画は下をクリックしてください。

 

 

The gifts have been delivered to more than ninety locations across Japan, boxes filled with backpacks, envelopes of cash.  This one came with green onions and five bags of rice. Each are from an anonymous donar who goes by Naoto Date, the name of a super hero in the popular Japanese comic, Tiger Mask.

 

Kikuchi Masatoshi got a box filled with pencils and pencil sharpeners at his orphanage in Yokohama. He says “I knew this man had a big heart.”

 

Tiger mask became popular in the 1960s, the stories about Naoto Date who becomes a professional wrestler and donates his money to the orphanage.

 

Now news of a real life hero helping children has sparked a national gift giving movement. The first gift came Christmas day and an employee at a welfare center outside Tokyo found ten boxes of backpacks. This man found twelve hundred dollars in an envelope at a grocery store. It came with a letter that read “There are tiger masks across Japan. Please use this for promising children.” The super hero has even gone to the police himself and asked them to deliver supplies to orphanages. Nearly two dozen new locations have reported gifts Tuesday alone. All the attention hasn’t convinced the man behind the mask to come forward yet, but there have been sightings. This store owner says an older man came in and bought half a dozen backpacks for an orphanage.

He covered his face with a scarf so I didn’t ask who he was. But I’m pretty sure he was Tiger Mask. Akiko Fujita, ABC news Tokyo.

  

 

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これって新聞記事の価値あるかなあ？

 

いつもの「はいはい道新」を英訳しながら考えました。この女性、気の毒だとは思うけど、新聞に載せるほどの話かな？
 
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街でテレビ局の方から「生放送のクイズ番組に出ませんか」と声を掛けられました。見たことのある番組だったので「出ます」と答えた後、時間があったので化粧直しをして心の準備をしていました。ところが集合場所に行くと何人かの人がいて、出場者は抽選で決めるとのこと。残念ながら私は外れでした。勇気を振り絞って出場を決意したのにがっかりです。応募者が多ければ抽選は当たり前なんでそうけれど、それなら初めからきちんと伝えてください。(北海道新聞　2011年1月11日号）
 
 
While  in town, I was approached by a TV station who asked me if I wanted to be on a live quiz show. The program name was familiar to me so I said “Yes.”
Then there was a little time availabe so I  touched up my makeup while making a mental preparation.
When I got to the meeting place (designated by the TV station) , however, I saw some other people waiting there too.  It was then I was told that the panelists would be chosen by lottery.  Unfortunately I couldn’t win it. I had to take all my courage to decide on showing up on TV, so my disappointment was all the greater.
It’s understandable that lottery should be a natural process if applicants are more than necessary. But if that’s the case, why didn’t they tell me so in advance?

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宿題出しますよーー。

前回はあまりにも複雑すぎたので、もっと簡易なものにします。

 ＊＊＊＊＊本文ここから

 

「僕はよく地下鉄を利用する。最近気がついたが５，６年前に比べて車内が静かになった気がする。よく観察してみると、原因は携帯電話にあるようだ。」

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カーリング、プロリーグ化を検討。　Study started for professional curling league foundation

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ハラハラしながらテレビ画面のカーリング選手を見つめたバンクーバーオリンピック。もうあれから一年かあ。さて今、北海道ではプロリーグ化の構想がでているという記事を目にし、英訳してみました。　（だけどこれまで立役者だったチーム青森の立場はどうなるんだろ？　後ろ足で砂をかけることになるのでは？）
  
 
 
バンクーバー五輪で注目を集めたカーリングをさらに盛り上げようと、道内でプロリーグを設立できないか検討する構想が浮上している。道は新年度から、施設設備やチーム運営費用、集客力などを調査し、プロリーグ化の可否を見極める方針だ。
(北海道新聞　２０１１年１月６日） 
 
 
 
The government of Hokkaido is working on the possibility to establish a professional curling league in Hokkaido.
The stone sliding sport gained tremendous attention in Japan during the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, and a plan is drawn to boost its popularity even higher by organizing a league.
From the new fiscal year, Hokkaido will begin to study various factors such as  facility, team running costs, and expected size of spectators before deciding if the leadue forming is practical or not.
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あけましておめでとうございます。

今年も倍旧の御支援とお引き立てを賜りますよう、よろしくお願い申し上げます。
 
　さて野村英語維新塾は二年目に突入しました。　箱根駅伝なら第二区間は最も難所といわれる区間であります。山あり谷あり雨あり雪あり・・・。
 
　ここを乗り切ればなんとか展望が見えてくるのでは、と考えております。　どうかこれからもご指導ご鞭撻のほど、よろしくお願い申し上げます。

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怒りの乗客、空港ロビー内にテント・・・ Airport Christmas for Europe’s stranded travelers

 

聖夜の寒波、欧州を襲う。空港は大混乱・・・・

せっかくの休暇が降雪と低温で台無し。イブの夜を空港ロビーで過ごした客は数千。

（右の写真は、搭乗をあきらめた乗客が空港ロビー内に建てたテントです。）

動画は下記をクリックしてください。

 
Across the Atlantic, thousands of travelers including  Americans  are in a race against the clock to get home for the  holidays only to be told to get ready to camp out a long wait. NICK WATT reports from London tonight.
The busiest international airport on earth, the busiest travel week  of the year. Thousands of passengers are now  trapped in what they are calling HOTEL HEATHROW. They won’t make it home for the holidays.
My son and I come home,  it’s like a present to my parents.  and I was even going to surprise them a little bit.
  
With London’s worst snow in twenty five years and the coldest in December in hundred years, Heathrow is just not equipped to deal with it.
  
“I’m truly sorry for every spoiled Christmas holiday, every disrupted travel plan.
In Germany today, a thousand flights were cancelled. In Paris a third of all flights grounded.
  
“Our flight coming in was Air France   ? ”  The guy on the left is a French transport minister. “Our flight was cancelled, we weren’t told the the flight was cancelled.”  In Brussels, they just ran out of de-icer  “They are closing the airport now, right?”  Right. Closed until Wednesday, at the earliest.
  
Many roads across  Europe are also a mess, and the railways, well that is a five hour line snaking around  London’s international Train Station. Some passengers are angry, but most are sanguine   “I’ve just stayed in the cold for three hours. I’ve got no blood left actuallly getting excited. So we just sit there and wait.”  “If I have to take a boat, I will.”  “Good. Determination. Good luck. I hope you make it.”  Sadly the news isn’t great tonight. The temperature is gonna plummet again and a lot more snow is forecast.
Nick Watt. ABC News London.